unclear, inconsistent installation instructions
Created originally on Bitbucket by RossBoylan (Ross Boylan)
I've assigned this a minor priority, but in terms of people being able to use hg-git it's pretty important.
http://hg-git.github.io/, to which http://hg-git.github.com/ redirects, and which is the first site google found, says Installing Hg-Git the easy way:
First, make sure that you have a working C compiler on your system. On Windows, one option is the free Microsoft Visual C++. (Be sure to install the 2008 version for compatibility reasons.) On Debian-style Linux, run apt-get install python-dev.
However, the readme says Dependencies
This plugin is implemented entirely in Python - there are no Git binary dependencies, you do not need to have Git installed on your system. The only dependencies are Mercurial and Dulwich. The plugin is known to work on Hg versions 1.9.3 through 2.3.1 and requires at least Dulwich 0.8.6.
Comments: I don't think both instructions can be correct.
The presumably correct and more recent instructions in the readme could say more about how to get python and Dulwich. I think there's a another bug about that.
Anything that starts with installing a compiler is not simple.
The link to Microsoft's site no longer takes you to a place where you can get Visual Studio 2008, and after some quick searching I'm not sure it's available at all (maybe in http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=21827). If a compiler really is still necessary, more clues about the range of compilers/system that work (mingw, cygwin, both gcc) would be helpful.